Marginality, Climate and Resources in Pastoral Rangelands: Oman and Mongolia
Marginality, Climate and Resources in Pastoral Rangelands: Oman and Mongolia Item Type text; Article Authors Sternberg, Troy; Chatty, Dawn Citation Sternberg, T., & Chatty, D. (2016). Marginality, Climate and Resources in Pastoral Rangelands: Oman and Mongolia. Rangelands, 38(3), 145-151. DOI 10.1016/j.rala.2016.03.001 Publisher Society for Range Management Journal Rangelands Rights Copyright © Society for Range Management. Download date 27/09/2021 07:01:42 Item License http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Version Final published version Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/640140 Marginality, Climate and Resources in Pastoral Rangelands: Oman and Mongolia By Troy Sternberg and Dawn Chatty livelihoods.5 In both countries, governments encourage On the Ground settlement or provide limited support for customary lifestyles • Oman and Mongolia feature different political whilst favoring extractive industries for tax revenue. As systems and physical landscapes yet represent climate, policy, and extraction affect pasture quality, water similar challenges encountered across global resources, and the rural landscape, these forces contribute to pastoral societies. loss of livelihoods and herder displacement. Yet the • Extractive industries disrupt pastoral drylands knowledge, adaptability, and resilience of pastoral livelihoods through reorienting government policy, environmen- suggest their enduring value in an era of environmental and tal change, altered water supply, and infrastructure socio-economic change.6,7 Our article explores these con- factors that challenge livelihood viability. temporary dynamics in the two traditional pastoral societies. • The impact of climate variability on rangeland Pastoralism is prevalent in dryland regions where domes- livelihoods is now exacerbated by policy and ticated animals efficiently convert limited ecological produc- development decisions.
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